The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-30
BILL NYE's RAILROAD PASS,
Lines on Returning tho lilnsted Document
to the Genial Glycr.

Lines on Returning the lilnsted Docunient
to the Genial Giver.
HUDSON, Wis, March 80, 1887.
". F. White. Esq, General Passenger Agent
Atchison, Topeka e Santa Fe Railroad
Topeka, Kansas.
DEAR SrR:-I enclose herewith annual
pass No. Q OBS for self ard family over
your justly celebrated road during the
year 1887. also return your photograph
and letters you have written me during
the past five years. Will You kindly re.
turn mine? And go this brief and boauti.
full experience is to end and each OF US
muat go bis own way hereafter.
AlasI
To you this may be caay, but it brings
a paug to my heart which your gentle
letter OF tho lst inst, cennot wholly allie
viate.
Whenever hereafter you look upon this
te%lr-speckled pass will you not think OF
me? Remember that you have cast nc
from you and that | am wandering ncroas
the bleak and wide.swept plains sadly
enumersting the ties on my way to eter-
nifty.
l do not aay thi1 to rayroach you, for
fear that you care for another, and so we
could not be happy together. But, oh!
do yc,n HvSs 10 tatli comprehend the
Ggnsf costs me' 10. Rhufh this pleasant
faced little pass with its conditions on
the back? Could you SEQ me even now,
as [ write these lines, turning AWAY ever
and anon, laying aside my trembling pen
to 70 and sit by the grate and nhudder
and weep snd put cut the fire with my
bitter tesrs, your hesrt would soften and
you would say: "Return, 0 wanderer, re.
turn!"
You do not say in your letter that l
have been false to you or that | | have ever
grown cold. You 90 not charge me with
lniidei!!y or failure to provide. You sim.
ply say that it would be better for each to
20 his several ways, forgetting that my
several ways are passing away, passing
away.
1t was well enough ior you to talk about
going your several ways. You have
every facility for doing 40, but with ME it
is different. Several years ago a largo
northwestern cyclone aud myself tried 10
pass eecn other on the same track. When
thu wrecking crow found me l va, in the
crotch Of q hutternut tree, with q broken
leg. Since that time have walked with
great difficulty, and % 20 my severai ways
has been q very serious matter with me-.
But | DO not want. yoI tG think that |
am murmuring. accept my doom calm.
iy, yet with a slight tings OF unayailinu
regret.
Some tins ~perhsps, in the middle oil
the dark and angry night, when the cold
blsstg wnil through the telegraph wires
aud the c!ashius sleet PUSHES With wild
aud impetuoua fury agGins! the windows
OF your epecisl car, es you lie warmly
%ersconced in your Voiumptuouo berth and
hear the p~itilcss wiudS With hoarse aut
grumpy moang chs2s each other around
the Kansas hRyBtgcks or Shrek WILDLY
away as they light out Tor their cherries:
homes in the Bad Lands, will sou think
OF mo as | crop on b!ind!y through the
secn and pi.ilnss BLASTS, stumbling over
catile.guards, falling into Gulverts 6nt
beating out my .Gtc Young brains aGa!nu'
yuur rough right Of way, will you not
think Of me? DO no: sex much, bu.
do ask this IS We separate forever.
As you whiz by me DO not treat me viii
coRtumtly, or throw crackers at NE wher
| hRve mceSly turned ont to let you
hasghty old Train 20 by. | have always
spoken 6i you in tho highcat terms, md
hope you will do the same by no.
Life 10 siiOrt al the heat, and it in especi
ally for :hose who have 10 walk. WalkinI
has alway5 shortened my life Il great deal
and | wOnldn'L be surprised il the expo
cure and bunions Of The year 1857 carriel
mt OF, leaving a zap in American literA
ture that will look like q new cellar.
Should any Of your engineera or track
men find me frozen in u cut next Tinler
when the grass geLa short and the night
e.: long, will you kindly Gsk :hem to r.
port the brand OF your nudito. and instruc
him 10 allow my family what he think
would he right? hate to write to you il
tbiC detected manner, but you cannot IN
dpia:aDG how heavy my heart is to-day u
/ pen these lines.
/ with you and your beautiful road un
mi;igRted success. 1t ia q good road, for
hnvG passed over 1t and enjoyed it. iIup
different the country will look to me no
10 bounding from tic to ito, slowly repeat
ing 10 myself tho trito remark once max,
by the Governor OF North Carolina to tn
executive oi.South Carolina.
| hope you may Fever know what it il
10 pull into the quaint little city OF Ii
Junta With the dust Of many weary mile
upon you and the thirst OF u long aud I'm
cvontiul journey in your throat. | hop
TINT Congress- vii! not pass n law mex
year which mikes it q felony for n ~railrOa,
man TO gay gosh" without q pB.init.
hope your lifs mny be chuck full OF hur
rail- and hallelniah, even il mine shoul
be always bleak and jnylcss. .
Can ] DO your road any good, either n
home or ahroRdH Can | bu OF pervicu [
you over your right Of way, by collectin
nu,g, bolts and old iron or other bric.p
braCY ! would be glad to influence INN.
grafton or pull Teeds between tho track
il you would DO willing to regard mo q
m employs.
| will now iske n last look ut the iNi,
young feGturaR Of your pass before final
aenling thin letter. How mad to 600 n
annual pasa cut down in liiu'a youn
morning, orc oHe-fourlh Of itH race Ia
been runl How louchlul 10 part from
forever!
What n End year lhis l,as been 90 fGl
Earthquakes, ilrrp, R,ormg, railway diHn
tiers md death in every form have visitG
our country, md nov, ike tho biuu
blaatG from Siber;a, or tho nipping fros
from Manitoba, Gomez Tho congregation
cut.worm cutting or tho early crop
Towering animalH just rs they had huddc
to bloom into bounty aud unrin!ncm.